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(No M08181.)

- G. VANDERHOOF.

v IRON FENCE. No. 88,587. Patented 81113124, 1888. $4 .1

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ORSON d. vnnnseuoor, or LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

iRON FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part oi Letters Patent 1%. 386,557.61uted July-24, 1888.

Application filed January 17, 1888. Serial No. 260.990.

'Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Iron Fences; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which "it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

'2 is a top view of the same.

This invention relates to melall'ie fences, and has for its object the construction .of a

. metallic paling fe'nce which shall be Firm, durable, and comparatively inexpensive,

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved fence; Fig. Figs. 3, 4-, 5, and 6 sh'ow different forms of bases and braces for the fence. p a

in the drawings, A designates the pales or pickets of the fence, constructed of strap or hoop iron, and B the wire rails to which the pales are secured. The plateof which the paling is constructed is rolled into the desired l'orin, so that it has a central vertical groove, (1. and two wings, a, one of which is on either side of the central groove.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be, seen that the wings a extend in opposite directions on the same plane from the groove ('1, and have their outer edges bent backward, so that when a pale is fixed in position the edges a bear against the wirerails, as shown. The pale is provided with holes a. throiigh which the wire raiis Bare passed. Two or said holes, one'being at each side, of the groove (4, form a passage for a wire rail. The wire is bent where it passes the groove a, as shown at b in,

Fig. 2, and a bolt or rod, (3, is inserted in the groove and under the wire, so that the paling and wire are firmly'locked together. There may be any preferred number of rail-wires B used in the fence, holes a being made in the pales for the wires to pass through.

Fences-have been constructed of pickets of angle-iron or curved iron with wires passed (No modl.)

I through them; but in such instances the picket has generally but two bearing-points against the wire rail, these being near the center line of the picket, orif not near the ccnteralarge wedge or rod is necessary to lock the parts together. In my construction of pale or picket it has four bearing-points against each wire, one being at each hole a on each side of groove wing, and only a'small rod is required tolock the parts, and the pickets are thus more firmly held in place against the wires.

At'suitable intervals are placed iron bases D, to which are bolted the lower ends of paling-posts, which may besnpported by braces E and connecting-pieces F; or a right-angled flange, a, may be made on the lower end of the paling-post, so as to allow it to be bolted to a temporary base, G. This ferm is used whenthe fence is intended to be portable, as shown in Fig. 50f the drawings. In Fig. 4 is illustrated my preferred form of base, which consists of the wrought-iron plate R, with a part, 8, cut out and turned up, so as to be conveniently riveted to the paling-post. Where a verystrong 'i'ence is required, I employ the diagonal braces m. passing through correspondingly-arranged holes at a but-ordinarily suclrwill'not be necessary.

I claim- In a fence, the nietallicpales A.,eachof which is provided with a central groove, (1. holes a, and the wings a, which extend laterally in 0ppositc directions .on the same plane from the said groove and haveftheir outer edges. bent to bear against the wire rails, as shown, in combination with the horizontal wires B, passed through the holes in pales A and in position bearinggigainst the bent edges of the pales,

ORSON G. VANDERHOOF.

Witnesses:

C. O. PEARSON,

ALBERT ALLEN.

and vertical rods 0, which are inserted in the grooves (t and-within the wires B, all beingcona, and one being at the outer edge of each. 

